A Hungarian woman is being held in Italy on a murder charge after authorities said her 2 year old son was found dead inside a supermarket in the town of Città della Pieve in Umbria.
According to Italian media and the news agency Newsflash, the 44 year old woman, Katalin, walked into a Lidl store on Friday carrying her son, Alex, and called out for help. Police said the toddler had been stabbed and could not be saved. Newsflash reported that she was charged after a knife was found in her bag, and investigators said bloodstained clothing was recovered from an abandoned building nearby.
Reports say Katalin had been in a custody dispute with Alex’s father, Norbert, and that a Hungarian court had awarded him custody before she traveled to Italy with the boy. The father reportedly alerted authorities in Hungary after receiving a disturbing image of his son on WhatsApp shortly before the boy’s death. Investigators were looking at the custody fight as a possible motive.
Katalin has denied the accusation. According to reports, she told police, “I did not kill my son,” after giving investigators conflicting accounts, and then stopped answering questions on the advice of her attorney.
She is being held at a prison in Perugia while the investigation continues. The charge against her had not been proven in court.
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